Truss resigns as UK political chaos rolls on
(CNS): Liz Truss resigned as UK prime minister on Thursday after just 45 days, the shortest period in office of any PM in British history. Following another difficult day Wednesday and a meeting earlier this morning with Sir Graham Brady, the leader of the influential 1922 Committee, comprising all backbench Conservative MPs, Truss threw in the towel. She will step down after a week-long emergency contest for a new Tory leader, she said when she appeared in Downing Street to announce her departure.
Opposition parties have called for an immediate general election. Labour Leader Keir Starmer said that after twelve years of Tory failure, the British people deserve better than the revolving door of chaos.
Truss’s resignation comes in the wake of an incredible month in British politics. A mini-budget by Truss and her first chancellor of the exchequer, Kwasi Kwarteng, including £45B of largely unfunded tax cuts for the wealthy, tanked the economy, creating market turmoil and causing mortgage costs to skyrocket. She sacked Kwarteng but was unable to explain why she should stay on when she had advocated for the policies that led to the “financial incident”, as it was labelled.
There was more humiliation for Truss when Jeremy Hunt, her second chancellor, scrapped most of the tax cuts and scaled back the energy bills cap. Then yesterday, Home Secretary Suella Braverman resigned on the basis of a technical excuse, saying she had broken government data rules by sending a document to the wrong person.
“I have made a mistake; I accept responsibility: I resign,” she wrote before going on at length about politicians resigning when they get things wrong, as well as criticising the leadership. The final nail in Truss’ political coffin came on Wednesday night when there were chaotic angry scenes in the House of Commons after a Labour motion to ban fracking led to Tory MPs who agreed with the ban being bullied into voting against the motion.
The Daily Star, a popular British Tabloid, was quick to congratulate a Tesco lettuce for lasting longer than Truss in what it described as a “glorious victory” for the vegetable, which had been pitted against the PM last week in a contest to see who lasted the longest.
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Nothing to see here besides Democracy at work! There will be a new PM and life will go on.. no need for alarm
Hahahahsha and there are a bunch a idjuts that post in this site claiming that Cayman needs Direct rule from Great Britain . Well I guess there is no other foot for the shoe to fit now!!
Accountability, what a concept. How do they manage it?
#lame
How can the UK speak to anyone else about good governance and democracy? This is frankly next level shambolic!
Great Britain needs Nigel Farage to come to the rescue – AGAIN.
No more globalists.
I wouldn’t trust Nigel Farage to rescue a child stuck under bedsheets much less a country that is only in crisis after more than a decade of the far right demanding more and more
A professional blowhard with expertise in nothing but demagoguery
All part of the grubby Brexit death spiral in the Tories. Brexit transferred control to the far right of the party, and as things worsened when Project Fear became Project Reality they sank more and more into extremism and mediocrity.
Far right? What are you babbling about? You might want to take a look a photograph of Johnson, or Truss’ cabinet.
Banana Republic
UK needs Direct Rule
She buried the Queen, the Pound, and the Tory party
As much as Cayman’s government can be a nuisance, we are lucky to have had a stable economy and fairly viable society for all these years. The UK is falling apart but there’s people on here that want direct rule… the UK is the last place we want directly governing us right now.
😅 😂🤣
General Election. Referendum on independence. Build the wall and keep the morris dancers oot! Saor Alba!
No independence for the Cayman Islands, at least not now, since we’re clearly not ready to go that far down the devolution process at this point.
Lettuce give Ms. Truss thanks for her years of public service and 44 days of poor leadership.
Lettuce wish her well in her future endeavours
All hail God Emperor Lettuce!
But Brexit-wise, did the lettuce vote leaf or Romaine?
Truss aside, (which she is), it speaks volumes on Tesco’s shelf policy that their lettuces are out there beyond 45 days.
Challenge only started on the 16th but having said that, in Cayman, that lettuce would a: cost $8 and b. rot as you exit the supermarket.
Eat more spinach!
Lettuce pray!
Lettuce leaf…
My three favorite vegetables
lettuce
turnip
an
pea
Take note PACT. Do the right thing.
But people come on here demanding UK direct rule – I’m British and can see how disastrous a job they are doing. There is a media site where they were betting she would not last longer than it took a head of lettuce to rot and she lost that at 44 days!
Laughable
And another one gone, and another one gone, another one bites the dust.